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09/04/2024

Image of the great North American eclipse, shared by NASA

09/04/2024

09/04/2024

09/04/2024

Pookie was looking absolutely FIRE today! 🌑☀️🌎

The Sun and Moon did not disappoint with their show-stopping spectacle! Already counting down until the U.S. coast to coast total solar eclipse encore in 2045.

How did you experience the 2024 eclipse?



Photo Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber

27/03/2024

Turn on, tune in, and space out. 🚀

Explore the surface of Mars, fly through a solar flare, and bask in the glow of a Uranian sunset with this awesome new video from NASA +.

Watch now: https://plus.nasa.gov/video/space-out-solaris/

26/03/2024

Extremely detailed image captured during Solar Eclipse reveals Sun's Corona.

26/03/2024

11/02/2023

SPACE ID 🪪 Bubble Nebula (also known as NGC 7635)

🔭 Discovered in 1787
✨ Classification: emission nebula
📍 Located in the constellation Cassiopeia
🚀 About 7,100 light-years from Earth

The "bubble" is created by the stellar wind from a massive hot young star.

📸: Larry Van Vleet

11/02/2023

: Mount Rainier Shadow

Mount Rainier in Washinton state is 4,392 meters tall, the tallest volcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc. During a recent sunrise, the volcano cast its shadow on the rather low altitude cloud deck over Puyallup, Washington. Photograper Lisa Bishop captured the moment in this gorgeous image.

Credit: Lisa Bishop

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11/02/2023

11/02/2023

NGC 346 (Webb)

This image features NGC 346, one of the most dynamic star-forming regions in nearby galaxies, as seen by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope.

NCG 346 is located in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a dwarf galaxy close to our Milky Way.

Credit:
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, A. Pagan (STScI)

27/11/2022

Coming soon to a screen near you! ⭐

Starting on Monday, join us for two weeks of *stellar* star cluster content! New Hubble images, videos, and more are headed your way.

Get ready to explore from Hubble! In the meantime, you can read up on star clusters here: https://go.nasa.gov/3i0SJl9

Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Ferraro

27/11/2022

This is of the Bubble Nebula, also known as NGC 7635. It is an emission nebula located 8000 light-years away.

Access a higher resolution image here: http://ow.ly/9GEw50LLWza

📷 NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration ESA - European Space Agency Hubble Heritage Team

27/11/2022

This black hole is on the move!

Hubble found evidence of an isolated black hole roaming around our Milky Way Galaxy, as depicted in this artist’s illustration.

The black hole is the crushed remnant of a massive star that exploded as a supernova, and the surviving core is several times the mass of our Sun! The black hole also traps light due to its intense gravitational field.

It’s estimated that about 100 million black holes drift through the stars of our galaxy. Find out more: https://go.nasa.gov/3VccULJ

Happy !

Illustration credits: FECYT, IAC

27/11/2022

22/11/2022

Europa Transit

Galilean moon Europa captured while transiting Jupiter, taken during the Voyager 1 mission using orange and violet filters on March 3rd, 1979.

Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Kevin M. Gill

22/11/2022

Dwarf galaxy NGC 1569 paints a vibrant portrait of the autumn season as new stars form. This Hubble Space Telescope image, full of white, orange, and red, appears like the light of the Sun through a canopy of orange and red leaves. In reality, these colors are attributed to several filters to help us see new stars and residual hydrogen gas.

This galaxy harbors three massive, young super star clusters and several smaller clusters. The three massive clusters look like younger versions of the globular star clusters that can be found in our own Milky Way. The bubble-like structures in this image come from the hydrogen gas that glows when hit by the fierce stellar winds and radiation from the omnipresent young stars.

Since NGC 1569 is a relatively close dwarf galaxy, it’s an excellent target for studying how galaxies change over time.

Credit: ESA, NASA and P. Anders (Göttingen University Galaxy Evolution Group, Germany).